We're going to start with a fairly simple negotiation scheme between pledgers and developer, and we'll see how it works. A pledge is a commitment, so pledgers c

We're going to start with a fairly simple negotiation scheme between pledgers and developer, and we'll see how it works. A pledge is a commitment, so pledgers can only defect if the developer's not doing his job over time (pledgers vote on this). As for bigger pledges having more voting power, we're considering this for commercial projects. But not for open source -- part of the attraction of open source is that it's not (too) controlled by money.